Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Understand"

A: entender ou compreender

A: It can mean "I am able to understand what you are saying."

It can also mean "I understand what kind of a person you are, how you think, etc."

"At first, you were a bit of a mystery, but now I understand you. You're just like me in some ways."

A: a little bit different way to express . probably what's happening is more formal than what is going on

A: have an idea on the task going forward


ex you have a project you need to do for school. so you make an outline of how the project will look. now you understand what you have to do to complete the project.

A: It means that the person has a small understanding of Italian. They can speak the basics of the language.

A: I understand you
He understood me
We understand one another
I want to be understood

A: The teacher told me that my grades weren't doing well. As far as I could understand, I had failed the class.

My mom said she was busy. As far as I could understand, she wanted to look at Facebook for a few more hours.

The man said my Japanese was "okay." As far as I could understand, I was the worst Japanese speaker on the planet.

A: “I can’t understand what you’re saying” I really think you can use both of them because they both sound natural for most sentences

A: "I don't understand."
"What don't you understand."
"Do you understand how to do this?"
"This is hard for me to understand."

A: I understood that I was supposed to be here at midnight.
Is that understood?
I'm not sure if he understood. Maybe you should tell him again.
It is understood that people shouldn't swear in public.

A: Say and tell are similar, but not the same.

Say focuses more on the words.

She said “I don’t sell well” or “he says that he will be home by 5:00.”

Tell focuses more on the content or the message.

She told him she didn’t care. He tells everyone how old he is.

In your sentence, it’s more about the words. You couldn’t understand the words.

One other difference is the object of the verb.

Say/said usually has words as the object. She said “no.”

Tell usually had a person as the object. She told me that she didn’t want to go.


The difference is subtle when trying to explain, but you would rarely mix up the two in native English.

Write some more examples and I’ll help you navigate them.

A: In general, "grasp" means to take hold of something. So "grasping information" is grabbing onto the information and understanding it.
You can also grasp on to objects- it's actually the more common use for the word. "She grasped onto the leash."

Hope this helps! (#^.^#)

A: To understand something means you already know or comprehend it. To figure (something) out means there are still steps you need to take in order to understand something completely, find an answer, or solve a problem.

Ex. Can you come look at my computer? It’s not working, and I can’t figure out what’s wrong with it.

Ex. Getting a math tutor helped me understand how to do algebra. Now I get A’s on all of my tests!

A: They are synonyms
Comprehend is a deeper understanding, having more knowledge about something, to understand something fully, completely.
It also more formal

A: "it is" doesn't really mean anything specific, it's a way to be more direct about the subject. But there is no difference in the meaning :)

A: 1.
"even" goes after auxiliary verbs but before full verbs.

A: I don’t understand/I don’t get it

A: i think its ok in speaking~

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A: There is a saying "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In Imperial units, a pound is 16 ounces, so preventing problems is 16 times as valuable as stopping them after they happen.

This writer is saying that having loving and ethical parents is 16 times as important as having good priests.

A: Haha. If you are passive-aggressive, you don’t come out and say what’s bothering you - if someone is annoying you, you might clear your throat, or make disapproving sounds, but not actually say, “hey, you’re being annoying”. If the person asked, “am I annoying you?”, they might say, “no, it’s fine”, but not mean it.

Fight Club was a movie about people who took out their aggression by gathering at night and punching each other. The first rule of fight club was, “you do not talk about fight club”.

However, passive-aggressive people do not fight, they just complain in passive (non-confrontational) ways, so the first rule is… “never mind, it’s FINE” (not meaning it).

A: Depending on the situation, you can also say:
You can think of this as ...
You can interpret this as ...
You can read this as ...

A: Here it means "from 1960 to 2000". (1960から2000まで)

This is the 'time' being described.

A: Here's the "fast speech in the middle of a conversation" pronunciation.

The "t" sound disappears from "couldn't".